Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-03-25
NATURAL GAS.

Fremont Is now illuminated with mai,
ural gas and the people are happy ovei
| tho result,
Norwalk has q stock company formct
and 81 GEO subscribed to sink an expcii
mental gas well.
Over half million dollars Of oil and
gas land in the suburbs of Findlay is re-
ported TO have changed hands last week.
The Gas & Oil Co. at Sylvonia hay,
been unable to secure leases sufficient tc
warrant them in undertaking 10 sink Q
we'll.
1t is estimated that $50, 900. 900 are in
vested in gas plants in Pennsylvania
Ohio promises not to be behind in thi:
matter.
Manager Brown, of the T. G. & s. Road
has promised 10 put in all the side track
and switches desired by the Canastots
GlasS Works as soon as they select u loca-
Iion at Bowling Green.
1t is reported that a genuine gas
gusher has been struck at Marion, Ohio
the roaring of the escaping gas of which
can be heard twelve miles. 1t would
seem that no locality is to enjoy mo
nopoly on the gas question.
Wehave been watching our exchanges
to see at what distance the light was
seen from the gas wells at Maumee and
Perrysburg last Saturday night-bui
their reporters seem to have not been
on the watch tower that evening.
One firm of well drillers have offered tc
drill three wells at Bradner, this county,
for 81 600 each, and i, is proposed to nc.
cept the proposition. 1t il growing more
evident every day that we bored Tie Per-
rysbnrg well too soon.
At depth of |, ,525 feet the vel al
the lnfirmary has been abandoned and
the Commissioners have contracted foi
the sinking of the second well on the
1ntirmary farm. The Bowling Green
papers fail to mention the price per foot
for sinking these wells.
The Findlay Gas Light Co. has given
notice that after April lst they will reduce
the price OF gas from 25 TO Is cents pe
stove per month. This is the kind OF ga,
that we want to pipe line to at sight. We
VIII agree 10 put up an extra stove as ai
inducement.
The farmers around Millbury are moi
anxious to lease their farms for the devel.
opment OF OIL aud gas. Why there i.
plenty of vacant lots around every village
that can be had for the asking for such
developments. Then why go to the troablt
TO lease whole farms.
1ou can get almost any kind of infor-
nation desired from the district. wher,
they have gas or oil boom-excep, the
solid tacis--in which little or no attempt i.
made. 1t is like betting on professional
horse race, in which the poorest horse i.
just as likely TO win the money as the
best.
Is it not little singular that while
Bowling Green is blessed with natural
gas and better prospects than ever be
fore for speculation in gas, oil, real es
tate, politics, justice-and in thought
that so many of her enterprising sons
should be pulling up stakes and going
West and into Canada
The question arises, did the Toledo
Blade have a staff reporter or a wei
digger to accompany the excursion
train to Maumee and report tn
"gusher" discovered upon the seconI
shooting of the well? II so how much
OF the fluid did he inhale prior to writ.
ing out the report? And again what
was the object?
The men who measured the gas wei
in South Toledo claim to have discov
cred discrepancy of just 200 feet il
the depth of their well-200 feet les
than was claimed by the men who sunl
the well. This well was shot again oil
Saturday afternoon last, but withou
beneficial results. A trifie over 30
pounds of dynamite was used, a
weighed by Mr.. VIM. Bates, which wa
exploded about 10 feet below the poin
where the gus was found when sinking
the well. An inch pipe perforated "a
the top was attached and the gas lighte,
during the evening, and the pr.ssur
we should judge about equal to the ca
pacity of one stove. The well prove
to be about II exact duplicate of tn
well at East Toledo and the Perrysbur
we'll.